Photography Thread

briantrumpet

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

I was supposed to be going out for a ride this morning at 9am, but we decided to delay for a bit....

Have you taken to referring to yourself in the first person plural?

Not the royal wee.

Just the three of us...

Was supposed to be 30 miles with a cooked breakfast, but ended up being just 10. And a cooked breakfast.

rjsterry

Pross

Like that bottom one in particular, very abstract.

rjsterry

Pross said:

Like that bottom one in particular, very abstract.

Thanks. It's just the reflection rotated so it's the right way up.

rjsterry

pblakeney

Nice idea! I find the bush a little distracting.
A possible crop?

rjsterry

The next opening would have worked better but the market stalls were already blocking the view.

rjsterry

Went back. Too busy. Sun all wrong.

Did get this though.

Pross

Should have done some litter picking first!

briantrumpet

I quite like this for two reasons - firstly, the colours and composition (thanks clouds!), and secondly, as I'd had a lovely ride to Budleigh all in the sunshine, and this appeared just as I got home.

pblakeney

It's funny how there seems to have been a shift in general public preference.
I am now getting compliments on my moody cloudy shots whereas before it used to be "Ooo blue sky, pretty!".

rjsterry

Pross said:

Should have done some litter picking first!

Thought it was kind of appropriate. Colours aren't quite right but carefully selecting rubbish to dress the shot is a step too far on my lunch break.

A tidier gutter.

Pross

pblakeney said:

It's funny how there seems to have been a shift in general public preference.
I am now getting compliments on my moody cloudy shots whereas before it used to be "Ooo blue sky, pretty!".

I think people of bored of seeing filtered blue skies / bright red sunsets on the likes of Instagram. I know you do occasionally get those colours in reality but it feels like everything is just too artificial to get a ‘like’ out of people. The Welsh Landscape & Seascape group I follow on Facebook is terrible for it, you get thousands of likes and comments of ‘stunning’ for something that is badly edited.

Obviously, as discussed on here before, there’s artistic choices such as long exposure that aren’t realistic but I think the difference with those blue skies is someone wants you to believe it was like that.

briantrumpet

Pross said:

pblakeney said:

It's funny how there seems to have been a shift in general public preference.
I am now getting compliments on my moody cloudy shots whereas before it used to be "Ooo blue sky, pretty!".

I think people of bored of seeing filtered blue skies / bright red sunsets on the likes of Instagram. I know you do occasionally get those colours in reality but it feels like everything is just too artificial to get a ‘like’ out of people. The Welsh Landscape & Seascape group I follow on Facebook is terrible for it, you get thousands of likes and comments of ‘stunning’ for something that is badly edited.

Obviously, as discussed on here before, there’s artistic choices such as long exposure that aren’t realistic but I think the difference with those blue skies is someone wants you to believe it was like that.

I think I've mentioned before that I've left localised FB Groups because of the popularity of photos that have been saturated to the max, to the extent it looks like they are emitting nuclear radiation (though I suspect you can't actually see that...) It duz me 'ed in.

masjer

Bee/flower season must be coming to an end soon.
This took a surprising number of attempts to get it how I wanted, specifically the background.

masjer

Some dramatic weather today. Incredibly rough considering the neap tide. Tricky conditions (spray haze wind) and I had to make a quick dash to higher ground on occasion.

Oystercatchers were braving it.

briantrumpet

Most excellent, @masjer - looks like perfect wave weather. It was a strong offshore wind at Budleigh on Friday, so nothing at all in wave action terms.

shirley_basso

Those middle waves look extremely unforgiving!

Pross

Managed to time my run fairly well, caught the rain for the first few miles but cleared up although the wind picked up. Did a bit of a new route that included a steep climb where the road briefly become this sunken lane which was basically a gravel stream bed for about 500m (also about 10% gradient which the camera doesn’t show - I didn’t run much of it!)

masjer

briantrumpet said:

Most excellent, @masjer - looks like perfect wave weather. It was a strong offshore wind at Budleigh on Friday, so nothing at all in wave action terms.

Thanks.
Although the waves were perfect, an occasional break in the clouds would’ve been nice.
It’s sunny tomorrow, but the waves will probably have dissipated by the evening.

One problem (very evident today), the bigger the waves the further out they break, so the more hazy the photo becomes when zooming to reach them. There’s always something.

shirley_basso said:

Those middle waves look extremely unforgiving!

Yes, very angry.

briantrumpet

There's no doubt that waves are fun to try and capture the atmosphere in still photos... I can take dozens and yet none really capture the power that you felt at the moment. @masjer - at least you've got some nice rocky shapes to play with in the background... Budleigh has nothing if you fire across the waves at an angle to catch several waves stacked up (and anyway, they only break close to the beach).

rjsterry

Quite enjoying the weird lighting caused by the reflection off the mirrored building. Also there's a weirder thing if anyone can spot it.

rjsterry

pblakeney

Looks like the invisible man has been found by reflective light.

rjsterry

Correct.

Used a tool to remove people from the view for a tidier shot but it clearly can't recognise shadows.

briantrumpet

rjsterry said:

Correct.

Used a tool to remove people from the view for a tidier shot but it clearly can't recognise shadows.

I'd probably leave that there for the comedy value, but a clone tool would take it out in seconds.

My biggest moan about Irfan View is that the clone tool doesn't have a soft brush. so all too often leaves obviously cloned patterns visible. On the plus side, it's free, a tiny app which loads in seconds (unlike, say GIMP), and the shortcuts for basic functions are easy to learn. It feels like an old MS-DOS-based thing, like Lotus 1-2-3... does the job, as long as the job isn't complicated.

briantrumpet

BTW, I think I prefer the first version, as I don't find the composition ratios as pleasing in the cropped one, and it foregrounds the sign on the pavement and loses its shadow too.

masjer

We very rarely see shadows here, nothing to do with vampires, just a lack of sun.

masjer

rjsterry said:

Quite enjoying the weird lighting caused by the reflection off the mirrored building. Also there's a weirder thing if anyone can spot it.

If BR compressed that any more, the shadow would've all but disappeared anyway.

rjsterry

briantrumpet said:

BTW, I think I prefer the first version, as I don't find the composition ratios as pleasing in the cropped one, and it foregrounds the sign on the pavement and loses its shadow too.

Ah, the second was just zoomed in to compensate for the brutal compression. Agree that the first is better.